With more golds to be won in track cycling and athletics, as well as taekwondo, diving and sailing, it’s set to be another blockbuster day at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Track Cycling
Track cycling continues with the men’s omnium. All four events take place tomorrow, with the scratch race at 16:00 BST, tempo at 16:38, elimination at 17:25 and points at 18:27.
Ethan Hayter, a two-time ominium world champion, will be competing for Team GB.
Emma Finucane and Katy Marchant, who have already won gold in Paris in the women’s team sprint, will compete in the women’s keirin quarter finals from 17:18, with the gold medal race at 18:11.
Two-time European silver medallist Finucane, 21, won her heat, while Marchant came through the repechage.
The men’s sprint quarter-finals will then get underway at 17:01 ahead of Friday’s gold medal race, with Jack Carlin and Hamish Turnbull both representing Team GB.
Taekwondo
Jade Jones begins her campaign for a third Olympic gold medal in the taekwondo women’s -57kg event.
The 31-year-old triumphed in London and Rio but was unable to become the first taekwondo athlete to win three Olympic golds in Tokyo.
She will go up against North Macedonia’s Miljana Reljikj at 11:00.
Bradly Sinden also competes in the men’s -68kg category with an opening encounter against Papua New Guinea’s Kevin Sogo Kassman at 09:59.
Sinden, who became Britain’s first-ever male taekwondo world champion in 2019, took silver in Tokyo on his Olympic debut.
The quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals will begin at 14:30 and be wrapped up by 21:30.
Diving
The men’s 3m springboard will conclude on Thursday at 14:00. Jack Laugher qualified for the final in third with 467.05, while Jordan Houlden progressed in fifth with 445.55.
Laugher has already earned bronze in Paris, and has springboard silver from Rio and bronze from Tokyo.
The 29-year-old said: “There is still loads left in the tank for tomorrow. I’d love it to be me challenging the Chinese divers for gold. I know that if I turn up and do everything as good as I can I’ve got a shot at trying to beat them.”
Grace Reid and Yasmin Harper will be competing in the women’s 3m springboard semi-final at 10:00 after qualifying from the preliminaries in fifth and ninth respectively.
Reid is seeking her first Olympic medal at her third Games, while Harper has already earned a 3m springboard synchro bronze medal in Paris alongside Scarlett Mew Jensen.
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Athletics
The women’s heptathlon begins at 09:05 with the 100m hurdles, with the high jump, shot put and 200m also taking place tomorrow.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson, a two-time world champion, is seeking her first Olympic medal at her fourth Games after an injury at Tokyo.
Johnson-Thompson is joined in the competition by Jade O’Dowda, the bronze medallist at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Georgia Bell, Laura Muir and Revee Walcott-Nolan will contest the women’s 1500m semi-finals at 18:35.
The men’s and women’s 4x100m heats will also get underway at 10:10, with Team GB represented in both.
Sailing
The medal races in the men’s and women’s kite events will start at 10:00.
Team GB’s Ellie Aldridge sits joint first in women’s standings after no races were possible again on Wednesday, while Connor Bainbridge sits in eighth in the men’s.
There are six races in the semi-finals and six races in the final - with Aldridge progressing directly to the final and Bainbridge the semi-final.
John Gimson and Anna Burnet, silver medallists from Tokyo, will start their medal race in third after it was postponed yesterday.
Marathon Swimming and more
Elsewhere, the women’s 10km open-water swim gets underway in the River Seine at 06:30.
Leah Crisp will represent Team GB on her debut at the Olympics, having secured a quota place with a 17th place finish at the 2024 Open Water World Championships.
The modern pentathlon gets underway at 10:00 with the fencing ranking round with reigning Olympic champions Joe Choong and Kate French going in the men’s and women’s events respectively.
Choong will be joined by Charlie Brown, while European champion Kerenza Bryson will also contest the women’s event.
The women’s lead climbing semi-final takes place, with Erin McNeice 10th and Molly Thompson-Smith 19th after the bouldering section.
They need a top eight finish across the two disciplines to make the combined climbing final.
And action continues in the women’s golf tournament, featuring Georgia Hall and Charley Hull. Hull, who is nine over par, tees off at 9:44 while Hall, two over par, gets underway at 11:17.
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